Gibbons plan ahead to beat competitors to the best breakfast spots

Gibbons stand up early when they need fruit for breakfast, exhibiting a capability for planning that has not often been documented in wild animals.

Skywalker gibbons (Hoolock tianxing) forage over a spread of 1 to three sq. kilometres, feeding on a wide range of fruits and leaves.

Pengfei Fan at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, and his colleagues studied two teams of skywalker gibbons within the Gaoligongshan National Nature Reserve in south-west China for round 5 years. They adopted gibbons from the bushes the place they slept to these …